Amusement parks : THE THREAD!

[Sentinel X]

Yeah amusement parks kick ass :o...My dad got tickets to universal today, well go next week, itll be my second time.i love that place

[Morg]

Cedar Point the best and I live nearby it too :D

[Sentinel X]

Cedar Point the best and I live nearby it too :DNever heard of it...but I love Islands of adventure. The Hulk coaster is full of awsomeness....but the Doom one sucks!...The first drop is awsome but after that its like having shaking syndrome

[JLBats]

The only time I'm truly happy is when I'm at an amusement park, which I suppose indicates severe dysfunction.

[Abaddon]

I feel like going to Six Flags.

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Alton Towers :up:

[thedeadite]

been to only a few ...Boblo (RIP), Cedar Point, Canada's Wonderland, 6-Flags over Texas, Universal Florida, Disney World (if that counts), and one in/near Rochester NY. All were fun...NOTHING matches Cedar Point though...best coasters anywhere, from what i can imagine....love it!!

[Sentinel X]

Okay I want to go to cedar point now...:(

Six Flags is awsome also imo, I liked the Batman & Robin ride.

[Morg]

Never heard of it...but I love Islands of adventure. The Hulk coaster is full of awsomeness....but the Doom one sucks!...The first drop is awsome but after that its like having shaking syndrome


Cedar Point link (http://www.cedarpoint.com/) They have several rollers coasters that are waaaaay taller then the Hulk ride and more scary :D

[Sentinel X]

Cedar Point link (http://www.cedarpoint.com/) They have several rollers coasters that are waaaaay taller then the Hulk ride and more scary :DHOLY ****!!!:eek: @ Magnum XL 200!!!!!!!




...and millenium force and the dragster thing...:eek:

[thedeadite]

millenium force > anything i've ever ridden.... though i havn't ridden the dragster yet...

[Morg]

HOLY ****!!!:eek: @ Magnum XL 200!!!!!!!




...and millenium force and the dragster thing...:eek:


yep, first time I got on them they scare the **** out of me :D

[Sentinel X]

I remember the first time I ever went on a HUGE rollercoaster...I almost had a heart attack

The corkscrew looks pretty sick too :up:
I would love to go there...but chances are my parents would never fly out of FL to go to an amusement park :down

[thedeadite]

last time i went to cedar point (millenium forces first year) my friend meghan chickened out both times we rode it....waited in line for over 3 hours the second time...got in the car..then freaked out and made me ride alone..haha

[Sentinel X]

Yeah...Do you know how many people left the line for the Hulk after staying forever :eek:...I can only imagine what they did for these rides

[thedeadite]

yeah, once you sit in the car and look about 300 feet up you start to get a lil freaked

[black_dust]

Alton Towers :up:
Dam right :D Some great rides there, and some world firsts as well :up: and i live like 20mins drive away :D

[Kable24]

I live 10 minutes from HersheyPark. I haven't been there in almost 20 years and have no desire to.

[Leto Atrides]

I just went to Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday. It was great. 2 of my friends decided they wanted to go on Kingda Ka (tallest roller coaster in the world), and since no one else did, they left to do it themselves. Despite the fact it was a rainy day, on a weekday, it was stilll about 3 hours before we saw them again. They had ridden once. We had ridden, like, 5 rides.

Cedar Point is great, but I've only been there once. I've gone to Dorney Park, it's suckier cousin, many a time though.

[Ebil Gig]

Wow The Power Tower at Cedar Point makes the Dr.Doom's freefall look like A Cat in the Hat ride.

Last month I went to Islands of Adventure for a field trip and went on the Hulk and Dudley Do-right for the first time.I wanted to die:o

[Boom]

I'm old-fashioned.

Paramount's King's Island.

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Dam right :D Some great rides there, and some world firsts as well :up: and i live like 20mins drive away :D


you're so lucky :(

[black_dust]

you're so lucky :(
Yeah id go all the time if the prices weren`t so ****ed up! :(

[Sentinel X]

Yeah id go all the time if the prices weren`t so ****ed up! :(HellO!?!Get an all year pass...it shouldnt cost more than 5oo!!YOu get to go all year on those awsome rides :eek: :up:

[_BB_]

yeah, season tickets are really worth the money if you live so close!

[black_dust]

:O now why didn`t i think of that ;)

[comicgirl]

I live 5 mins from HersheyPark............It's funny when you live so close....it's pretty to drive by..but, I've been so much...ugh.....it's ok

[StorminNorman]

I love Six Flags over Georgia (Batman and Superman roller coaster :up:), and Busch Gardens Tampa.

[black_dust]

So whats the biggest park in America then? you know the one that everyone goes "I must go there before i die, or die there which ever comes first"

[Darkdd]

Never heard of it...but I love Islands of adventure. The Hulk coaster is full of awsomeness....but the Doom one sucks!...The first drop is awsome but after that its like having shaking syndrome
Yuck!!!!The doom drop.It is evil.Me and my sister are talking while the seats slowly climb the tower when all of a sudden it shoots up instead of down.:o :D

[GoldenAgeHero]

where is cedar park located?

[StorminNorman]

Ohio

[Bat Attack]

I LOVE amusement parks, I always go to them during the summer, last year I went to Six Flags Great Adventure and went on "Kingda Ka" and almost peed my pants, it was so fun. Six Flags New England and Magic Mountain are great too. Same with Universal Studios and Cedar Point (I love Millenium Force). :up:

[Leto Atrides]

So whats the biggest park in America then? you know the one that everyone goes "I must go there before i die, or die there which ever comes first"

in general, the Disney Parks.

For thrill parks, it's generally whoever has the biggest rides at the moment. Currently, Six Flags Great Adventure in NJ has the biggest, Kingda Ka. Cedar Point, Ohio has the second, Top Thrill Dragster, and some other of the other biggest ones like Millenium Force

[Palpadious]

The closest to me is a redneck haven called Lake Winnepasaukah. It used to be good, but the rednecks took over. I just go to Six Flags Atlanta

[Bat Attack]

The closest to me is a redneck haven called Lake Winnepasaukah. It used to be good, but the rednecks took over. I just go to Six Flags Atlanta
That sucks, so do rednecks.

[Immortalfire]

Six Flags over Georgia, close to home..great rides. My favorite is the Georgia Scorcher, second; Superman Ultimate Flight.

[imdaly]

Cedar Point is THE park to go to. No. Questions. Asked.

Maaaaan, the first time you are at the top of the 420 ft. 80-degree drop...and you can see ALLLL of the park...and you wonder how that little lap-bar is supposed to hold you in....PURE UTOPIA....and FEAR!

What a rush!

And I LOVE that it's not like most coasters that clink you up by a chain, foot-by-foot. It PULLS you up...then flings you down!


There's just such a great amount of awesome coasters there.

Millenium Force
Raptor
Mantis
Magnum
Gemini
Mean Streak
Top Thrill Dragster
..heck...even Disaster Transport!


If you've never been to Cedar Point....GET ON IT!

[Leto Atrides]

Raptor isn't too big, but it is one of the funnest coasters.

[thedeadite]

raptor was great...till my friend told me...look at your feet the entire ride...then i got dizzy and almost puked...

[8Ball2/JanG5]

As a former Clevelander, I use to live near Cedar Point too.

What can I say, the largest park in the world by land area, the most rollor coasters (16), and several time record holder for biggest and fasted and several other categories of coaster. Cedar Point is about the only place in ohio you can consistantly see tourists from places like the middle east, Japan, and India.

And yet still... it is not as known as Disney World or Universal studios.

[Leto Atrides]

Disney World and Universal are more an actual vacation destination, whereas places like Cedar Point are either a day trip or a "while you're in the area..." sort of thing. That may be part of it.

[8Ball2/JanG5]

This is because Disney World and Universal have more elaborate attractions, Disney World is large since it's a group of parks, and their is more to do for both adults and family, and even more to do for adults right around the area.

But Cedar Point gets a little bit of that sort of love, there are some hotels there and as I said some people do come across the world to visit there.

[Excel]

six flags new england. home of superman ride of steel-worlds number ONE rated roller coaster for 6 straight years!


its AMAZING!!!

[Immortalfire]

One I want to visit is Six Flags at Arlington, the very first one..and they have some cool rides.

Yeah, Excel, I want to visit New England too. I've seen your Batman coaster, me want on it!

[Wilhelm-Scream]

They should call this place Intentional Boob-Brush Land (http://www.lagoonpark.com/explore_rides.php).
It is my childhood. It is my teen age.

All year long, you'd wait for "Lagoon Day", knowing full well that to the girls who were now allowed to wear shorts, the freedom of roaming around a re-created Pioneer Villiage and "needing" to ask one of us to ride in one of the 2-man cars...was a powerful aphrodesiac.

Plus, they had a "Horror Ride" AND "Dracula's Castle.
YES


One funny thing is that, in a fit of nostalgia, my ex-fiance and I decided it'd be fun to go to Lagoon. On the way there we got into a huge, nasty fight.

We didn't know that after all these years Lagoon had put in one of these "they take a picture of you without asking, then show it to you and if you want it on a T-shirt or in a little plastic viewer you just have to pay them $20" - Things.

So we walk in TOtally pissed off at eachother, wanting to turn around and go home, and this freak steps up and takes our picture and yells "SMILE!"

So I bought it 'cause it's hilarious, in this colorful place with all these frolicking kids and balloons and cotton candy behind us and then Me in a KISS T-Shirt and black jeans and her in a black tank top and black jeans and we both look homicidally pissed off.
ahh...the memories.:)

[Drakon]

So, no love for Busch Gardens-Williamsburg? I can't begin to tell you how many hours I spent there growing up. And most of my friends would put a few bucks towards tickets for me so that they could get right to the front of the lines, since I'm missing my leg.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

So, no love for Busch Gardens-Williamsburg? I can't begin to tell you how many hours I spent there growing up. And most of my friends would put a few bucks towards tickets for me so that they could get right to the front of the lines, since I'm missing my leg.Heh, only ONLY good thing about my little brother having cerebral palsy. It was like a mini-cosmic payback when we went to Disneyland and walked past all the sweating suckers in line as if we were the President or Oprah Winfrey or something 'cause he's in a wheelchair. Hahaha, I forgot about that.

In fact, after seeing those preposterously long lines, I don't know that I'd ever care to return to Disneyland without a wheelchair-bound person.

[Drakon]

If you're buyin, I'm flyin.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

You should get a business card. "Amusement Park Line Expediter".

[Erzengel]

I live in Jersey, duh so I've been to Six Flags Great Adventure more than any other amusement park and while the rides are fun the clientel has seriously gone down hill.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

what, mullets, gangstas and fat people? :(

[Erzengel]

Mullets and sweaty fat people washing themselves in the sinks of nearby fast food places. :(

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Mullets and sweaty fat people washing themselves in the sinks of nearby fast food places. :(
Heh,


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Wilhelm-Scream/FATASS.jpg

[Duende Verde]

I went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in april, all the rides are great, but my favorites are X, Goliath, Riddler's Revenge and Scream.:up:
I didn't get to ride the new Tatsu because it wasn't ready, it opened 2 weeks ago:mad::down

[dpm07]

I've been to a lot of Amusement Parks in the US, and from my perspective, the best is Cedar Point. CP really trumps them all in dignified fashion. I've thoroughly enjoyed the proper performance of the park in its entirety.

I reside in MI, and try to make it to CP as often as I can to take advantage of moment. As a side, sometimes I go to Put-N-Bay while enjoying a Cedar Point weekend for an additional activity.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I didn't get to ride the new Tatsu because it wasn't ready, it opened 2 weeks ago:mad::downwhoah, I was thinking of "TATU"
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Wilhelm-Scream/39.jpgand I was gonna say, "I'd ride that."

[Wilhelm-Scream]

dignified dpm just learned this word the other day and is thrilled to use it at any opportunity, whether appropriate or not.

Now ROLLERCOASTERS are dignified?:rolleyes:

[Duende Verde]

whoah, I was thinking of "TATU"
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/Wilhelm-Scream/39.jpgand I was gonna say, "I'd ride that."
it's a ride you wouldn't want to be the last one in line

[Leto Atrides]

dpm just learned this word the other day and is thrilled to use it at any opportunity, whether appropriate or not.

Now ROLLERCOASTERS are dignified?:rolleyes:

The manner in which Cedar Point bests its competition is what he's saying is dignified. Not that that makes more sense.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The manner in which Cedar Point bests its competition is what he's saying is dignified. Not that that makes more sense.I'm aware of that. I didn't think it was even worth making the distinction.

But I have to agree, all of these new prurient rollercoasters with the gratuitous cleavage and fart noises have NO honor!:mad:

[Leto Atrides]

Absolutely tasteless. Millenium Force, now that is a classy ride.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I always wear a tuxedo and top hat when I ride that one. It's so refined...

[Sentinel X]

six flags new england. home of superman ride of steel-worlds number ONE rated roller coaster for 6 straight years!


its AMAZING!!!Yo if that superman ride is the one were you blast off at like 150 MPH then I MUST GO ...sometime before I die

[Bat Attack]

Yo if that superman ride is the one were you blast off at like 150 MPH then I MUST GO ...sometime before I die
No, you're thinking of the one at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California.

[Bat Attack]

Batman: The Dark Knight at SF New England is so awesome. Especially since they blast the elfman music when your waiting in line (which they do on most batman coasters, but oh well). :up:

[Immortalfire]

Six Flags doesn't like black people (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601801.html?nav=rss_business). Or so, someone would say they don't :rolleyes:

Though I'm impressed, not much of a "TEH RACISTS!!!" cry going on.

[Darren Daring]

Hey, I just got back from Universal, go Dudley Do-Right

[jaguarr]

It's been years since I was there, but King's Dominion (http://www1.paramountparks.com/kingsdominion/) in Virginia is a fun park. It's not as great as Cedar Point by any mean, or Six Flags Magic Mountain, but still a fun way to kill a day.

jag

[Go Web Go!]

Mickey Mouse owns you all.

[Zen]

I was at six flags "great adventure" last friday...

yeh 4th of july weekend, i know. but i had two secrets...

#1... New england floods kept some folks away

#2 Gold flash pass.

now #1 is cold hearted but alot of my family is in binghamton, they were hit hard... i know this is like saying "but i got black freinds", still i dont care it helped with the lines

now.... #2 i swear i dont want to even mention this in hopes that no more people buy these things. we got to the park early and RAN to the place that sold these FIRST...

oh yeh, along with 100 or so other people! people were walking by looking in the window wondering what the hell we were doing in the dinky flashpass shop. and most of the people were getting the regular one so you could reserve your spot in line without waiting in it. cool for them

but we went nutz and bought the gold, it made 2 1/2 hour long line waits into 15 minute waits OUTSIDE the line.

me and my brother rode 26 coasters in ONE day... on FORTH OF JULY WEEKEND! thats the difference@!#% well worth the extra money.







Now, screw cedar point... almost always huge line waits, its in ohio and theres not much else to do outside of the park, and the rides are great but with rides like six flags great adventure im not venturing over there to hop on a few...

especially when El toro has the steepest drop angle of any wooden roller coaster on the planet, kingda Ka is the TALLEST AND FASTEST COASTER on the planet...however it only lasts 50 seconds. you are scared out of your mind the first time, and you really dont ever get completely used to it... i went on it 5 times and everytime i was still much more nervous then i was on any other ride...

i mean its 0-130 in 3 seconds! then it goes straight up 460 feet... at that speed! then it hangs at the top cause some designer is a twisted bastard! and then you spiral fall towards the ground for 460 feet! it doesnt matter that its short... its retardedly awesome. and it has an extra hop at the end that the top thrill dragster doesn't.

the medusa floorless was cool, long ride, very snake-like in that it fluidly spins around and coils and turns

the Nitro might have been our favorite because the lap bar thing made you feel as though you were going to fall out, it was made that way... it only secures your thighs, not your waist... 80 miles an hour... big drops, we went on this the most, lift your hands and feet if you got balls and you'd swear you were hanging on by a thread, floatin

american scream machine, batman the ride, batman and robin... all decent coasters, awesome to take your girlfreinds on and they'll act like you when you went on kingda Ka (btw i think that name is crap...)

disclaimer to the ladies... there were definately brazen risk-taken females on the kingda ka but they were far outnumbered by guys, who btw, screamed like little girls on this thing... i simply cant tell you how many times i was sitting next to a dood who had to leave his girlfreind behind.

lucky enough to trick mine into the front seat! i told her it was a different coaster that went next to the kingda ka... she looked over and saw medusa and waited with me for the frontseat and got in. MWAHAHAHAHA
then she heard the next car pull up and say... you've conquered Kingda Ka. she started to get nervous and i just acted like i had no idea. too late we were rocketing towards the lift.... MWAHAHAHAHA

if i didnt act dumb about it she'd probably still not be talking to me.




Oh, and me and my brother, two 200+ lb 6ft tall kids... beat the **** out of the tea cups, not the crappy kind, but the ones you can spin yourselves, yeh... we braced ourselves with a leg across from each other and made a system of spinning that was...just, wrong. people were laughing, pointin...asking if that was safe, warning their kids not to do it.... but me and my brother were about to throw up cause we got a lil carried away.

Cedar point has got a hell of alot of rollercoasters, definately go there if you havnt been there yet. but remember they dont have fastlanes anymore so waits are nutz, and they dont have El toro or Kingda Ka.

[Leto Atrides]

Oh, and me and my brother, two 200+ lb 6ft tall kids... beat the **** out of the tea cups, not the crappy kind, but the ones you can spin yourselves, yeh... we braced ourselves with a leg across from each other and made a system of spinning that was...just, wrong. people were laughing, pointin...asking if that was safe, warning their kids not to do it.... but me and my brother were about to throw up cause we got a lil carried away.


That's awesome, but how the hell did you both fit? I'm smaller than that and I could barely fit me and another even smaller person in it last time I went. Unless I'm confusing Six Flag's teacups with others that are smaller.

What's entertaining is getting 3 fully grown people abreast in the little Himalaya-type coaster.

[Warhammer]

One of my goals is to go to Universal Studios.
Water Country USA and Busch Gardens are near me, though, and they are pretty good. Kings Dominion is nice, too.

[cornernat]

went to six flags two days ago. fun as hell. kingda ka is the craziest roller coaster there. pertrifying at first when you see the people in front of you shoot 128 mph.

[cornernat]

oh yeah, i rode the medusa 4 times in 10 minutes......... flash pass of course

[Immortalfire]

So Flash Pass works pretty well? I'm going to Over Georgia soon, and just wanted some info from a user.

[The Last Meatbag]

Hershey Park and Disney World were the best :O


I went with my whole 8th grade class to Disney World and visited all of the kingdoms, it kicked so much ass :o

[Warhammer]

As anyone rode the Superman coaster at Six Flags over Georgia?
It is nowhere near the best roller coaster, but it is really fun. It makes you get into Superman "flight position".

[Sentinel X]

I couldve gone a free pass to Six flags new jersey..I was just one day away!!!!!!!!!